### Please describe the problem. In latest git-annex version for windows (4.2130723), after a fresh clone, git annex sync considers dummy symlinks as recently modified files and commits the content. Alternatively, to try and avoid this problem, I tried manually merging branches (git-annex and master) but if I do that, I can't retrieve files anymore. That is, `git annex get .` downloads files but doesn't replace the dummy symlinks (I am guessing the same as `http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/windows_port_-_can__39__t_directly_access_files/`. Tell me if this is a different bug, I'll file a new bug report) ### What steps will reproduce the problem? Create a new repository (on windows or on linux), create a file and commit it. Clone this repository (on windows), then `git annex init` it. The file is here, containing the path to the real file (like a symlink but the crippled filesystem's version). At this point, if you perform `git annex sync`, git-annex thinks the dummy symlink is the new content of the file and commits it. ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? This problem occurs on git-annex for windows version 4.20130723 (the latest version as of now) although it worked well in version 4.20130709. ### Please provide any additional information below. [[!format sh """ # If you can, paste a complete transcript of the problem occurring here. # If the problem is with the git-annex assistant, paste in .git/annex/daemon.log $ mkdir test1 $ cd test1 $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in c:/Users/raz/test1/.git/ $ git annex init test1 init test1 Detected a crippled filesystem. Enabling direct mode. Detected a filesystem without fifo support. Disabling ssh connection caching. ok (Recording state in git...) $ echo "This is the content of the file" > file.txt $ git annex add add file.txt (checksum...) ok (Recording state in git...) $ git annex sync commit ok git-annex: no branch is checked out $ cat file.txt This is the content of the file $ cd .. $ git clone test1 test2 Cloning into 'test2'... done. $ cd test2 $ git annex init test2 init test2 Detected a crippled filesystem. Enabling direct mode. Detected a filesystem without fifo support. Disabling ssh connection caching. ok (Recording state in git...) $ cat file.txt # File is only a dummy file, it contains the path to the real file (which doesn't yet exist here, this is expected behavior) .git/annex/objects/33/43/SHA256E-s32--a50017c6136930a142cfca6ee34b700d96dcf0ba59cf7007c27c2924f80dfa7a.txt/SHA256E-s32--a50017c6136930a142cfca6ee34b700d96dcf0ba59cf7007c27c2924f80dfa7a.txt $ git annex sync (merging origin/git-annex into git-annex...) (Recording state in git...) add file.txt (checksum...) ok # ??? The dummy file is added to the index -> shouldn't happen (Recording state in git...) commit (Recording state in git...) ok pull origin ok push origin Counting objects: 26, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (14/14), done. Writing objects: 100% (19/19), 1.78 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Total 19 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0) To c:/Users/Renaud Casenave-Pere/test1 * [new branch] git-annex -> synced/git-annex * [new branch] master -> synced/master ok $ git annex whereis # File should be in origin repository, not here whereis file.txt (1 copy) e6e1c558-7127-4ffa-a79b-2161b44ec44b -- here (test2) ok $ cat file.txt # The committed content, discarding the real content .git/annex/objects/33/43/SHA256E-s32--a50017c6136930a142cfca6ee34b700d96dcf0ba59cf7007c27c2924f80dfa7a.txt/SHA256E-s32--a50017c6136930a142cfca6ee34b700d96dcf0ba59cf7007c27c2924f80dfa7a.txt # End of transcript or log. """]] Tell me if you need further information. > [[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]]